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So, you've bought Minecraft, and spent some time mucking around in a blocky wonderland--and now you want a little more out of the experience. This is where mods come in.
Installing mods for a single-player client is a somewhat convoluted process. The steps vary from mod to mod, so you'll want to follow the instructions listed on the particular mod you're looking for, but the general technique is the same. I'll walk through installing one mod on Windows: Minecraft user jamioflan's World War 2 Guns. This mod adds MP40s, bazookas, and the like, to exact vengeance on nefarious hordes of zombies and creepers.
Jamioflan's forum post provides links to the mod proper, along with a few necessary files: ModLoader, AudioMod, and ModLoaderMP. The Minecraft community developed those three tools to enable mods to function properly. You'll also need a compression tool--WinRAR or 7-Zip--so grab one of them (I use WinRAR) if you don't have an app handy already.
First find the 'minecraft.jar' file. Click the Start button, and type " %appdata% " into the search window (without quotation marks but with one space before and another after the typed string) to get to Windows' application data folder. The folder '.minecraft' will be at the top. Open the folder titled 'bin', and look for the file 'minecraft.jar'--this is where the magic happens.
When you find it, make a copy of 'minecraft.jar', and stash it somewhere. If something goes wrong, you'll want a clean copy to start over with. Right-click the original minecraft.jar, and open the archive with Win-RAR/7-Zip. You'll see a long list of files in a new window. Follow the instructions provided by the mod at this point: For the WW2 Guns mod, you'll copy all of the '.class' files from ModLoader, ModloaderMP, AudioMod, and the WW2 Guns mod into the open 'minecraft.jar' archive.
The last and most important step: Delete the 'META-INF' folder inside the 'minecraft.jar' file; otherwise, Minecraft will just crash when you start it up. Close the file when you're done.
And with that, you're set! This particular mod requires collecting materials, so if you want to see whether it worked, create a new world in Creative mode, and spawn a few guns to see them in action.
Single-Player Modding
Installing mods for a single-player client is a somewhat convoluted process. The steps vary from mod to mod, so you'll want to follow the instructions listed on the particular mod you're looking for, but the general technique is the same. I'll walk through installing one mod on Windows: Minecraft user jamioflan's World War 2 Guns. This mod adds MP40s, bazookas, and the like, to exact vengeance on nefarious hordes of zombies and creepers.
Jamioflan's forum post provides links to the mod proper, along with a few necessary files: ModLoader, AudioMod, and ModLoaderMP. The Minecraft community developed those three tools to enable mods to function properly. You'll also need a compression tool--WinRAR or 7-Zip--so grab one of them (I use WinRAR) if you don't have an app handy already.
First find the 'minecraft.jar' file. Click the Start button, and type " %appdata% " into the search window (without quotation marks but with one space before and another after the typed string) to get to Windows' application data folder. The folder '.minecraft' will be at the top. Open the folder titled 'bin', and look for the file 'minecraft.jar'--this is where the magic happens.
When you find it, make a copy of 'minecraft.jar', and stash it somewhere. If something goes wrong, you'll want a clean copy to start over with. Right-click the original minecraft.jar, and open the archive with Win-RAR/7-Zip. You'll see a long list of files in a new window. Follow the instructions provided by the mod at this point: For the WW2 Guns mod, you'll copy all of the '.class' files from ModLoader, ModloaderMP, AudioMod, and the WW2 Guns mod into the open 'minecraft.jar' archive.
The last and most important step: Delete the 'META-INF' folder inside the 'minecraft.jar' file; otherwise, Minecraft will just crash when you start it up. Close the file when you're done.
And with that, you're set! This particular mod requires collecting materials, so if you want to see whether it worked, create a new world in Creative mode, and spawn a few guns to see them in action.
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